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- Jared Nathan was born on 10 August 1985 in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA. He was an actor, known for Zoom (1997) and Sesame Street: Fiesta! (1997). He died on 28 December 2006 in Hollis, New Hampshire, USA.
- David Pfeiffer was born on 31 July 1951 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for The China Syndrome (1979). He died on 28 December 2006 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Bill O'Connor was born in 1916 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948), Wishing Well (1954) and I Became a Criminal (1947). He died on 28 December 2006 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Aroldo Tieri was born on 28 August 1917 in Corigliano Calabro, Calabria, Italy. He was an actor, known for Melissa (1966), Mademoiselle Gobete (1952) and The Man Who Wagged His Tail (1957). He was married to Giuliana Lojodice. He died on 28 December 2006 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Komei Abe was born on 1 September 1911 in Hiroshima. He studied the cello with Heinrich Werkmeister (1883 - 1936) at the Tokyo Music School (today's Music Department of Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music), at the time the best facilities in Japan for studying Western music. Abe formed a chamber ensemble and worked on Beethoven's music in particular.
Abe played in the Music School's orchestra under conductor/composer Klaus Pringsheim who he admired. Pringsheim, appointed professor at the Tokyo Music School in 1931, had been a pupil of Gustav Mahler and had conducted operas in Geneva, Prague and Bremen in the 1910s, and a cycle of Mahler's symphonies with the Berlin Philharmonic. Abe began to study German-style harmony and counterpoint with him, and decided he wanted to become a composer, not a cellist. Abe was strongly influenced by this teacher's view and knowledge of the late romanticism period represented by Mahler and Richard Strauss, and neo-classicism by Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill.
At the age of 34 Abe had already written some works including several orchestral pieces, four string quartets, one flute sonata, choral pieces and film music, and had established his name as a master neo-classicist. In 1948 he was appointed music director of the imperial orchestra, a position he held for six years. The ensemble performed waltzes and serenades for guests from foreign countries at parties held by the Emperor. The members of the imperial orchestra however were originally musicians of Gagaku, performing Japanese ancient music. From them Abe learned Japanese traditional music, with which he was not very familiar in his younger days. It broadened the horizons of his compositional style.
Abe's works in the postwar days include Symphony No. 2 (1960), Clarinet Quintet (1946) and String Quartets Nos. 5-15 (1947-1993). He died at the age of 95 in Tokyo, in the morning of 28 December 2006.- Actor
- Stunts
Max Latimer was born on 11 December 1933 in the UK. He was an actor, known for The Strauss Family (1972), The Gnomes of Dulwich (1969) and The Old Curiosity Shop (1979). He died on 28 December 2006 in Barnet, Middlesex, England, UK.- Dinerral Shavers died on 28 December 2006 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
- Dean Turner was born on 7 September 1922 in Pocatello, Idaho, USA. He was an actor, known for Magnum, P.I. (1980), Sayedat al akmar al sawdaa (1971) and Girl from Tobacco Row (1966). He died on 28 December 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Ramón Repáraz was born on 14 October 1931 in San Sebastián, Spain. He was an actor, known for Memorias del general Escobar (1984), Estudio 1 (1965) and Novela (1963). He was married to Mara Goyanes. He died on 28 December 2006 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.- Xichun Wang was born on 12 February 1919 in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. She was an actress, known for Power and Sword (1940), Sheng yu si (1953) and Meng Li Jun (1940). She died on 28 December 2006 in China.
- Director
- Producer
Prescott Wright was born in 1935. Prescott was a director and producer, known for The Animators (1982). Prescott died on 28 December 2006 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.- Boris Magalif was born on 8 March 1927 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Chelovek ne sdayotsya (1961), Chasy ostanovilis v polnoch (1959) and Tsirkachonok (1980). He died on 28 December 2006 in Gorki, Belorussiya.
- Actress
- Music Department
Gracie Cole was best known as a trumpeter and cornetist, the daughter and granddaughter of miners who also were proficient on brass musical instruments. She appeared on the BBC's "Children's Hour" at the age of fourteen and played in everything from brass bands to jazz ensembles, including her own all-girl band, well into her seventies. In 1990 she was named a Freemnan of the City of London.- Virgilio Scapin was born on 11 July 1932 in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966), Il commissario Pepe (1969) and Nella tua vita (1976). He died on 28 December 2006 in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy.